"The beginning of the 90s is marked by the onset of a period of long-term depopulation in Russia, which engulfed almost all its subjects. Depopulation (this is one of the states of demographic development. The simplest and, apparently, not the only definition of it is a reduction in population due to its natural decline. This phenomenon is by no means new. Even at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, for example, France was in a period of protracted depopulation. In the 20th century, many countries experienced depopulation. , Sweden and a number of other states. Russia simply turned out to be an outsider in the circle of European countries, and its society is not ready to perceive such a direction of demographic dynamics." Published in the collection "Why are Russians dying out" EKSMO, 2004